Time management

Please note all of our course are tailored to suit - below is a sample outline for a 'typical'  1-day course which we recently ran for a financial organisation in London

Managing Time Course (1 day)

Learning Objectives

Few factors contribute more to personal efficiency and effectiveness than how we manage our time.  Time Management is about bringing your personal and business life under control by identifying the key priorities and by devoting your time the do the “right” things.  Sound time management reduces personal stress levels and puts you in control - you are running the job not the job running you.

During this course delegates cover the following areas:

1. Evaluating your present ability and your use of time
2. Procrastinating, priorities & goals setting
3. Planning your time better
4. Personal organisation
5. Desk organisation
6. Technology and  e-mail organisation
7. Managing phone-calls and voice mail
8. Reading and writing
9. Managing meetings
10. 1Time management and others – delegation
11. Managing colleagues and your manager
12. Maintaining a work life balance – stress & time off

Learning Outcomes

Participants attending this programme will:

• Explore how to gain control over their time and improve their time management
• Identity means of increasing their effectiveness and efficiency on the hob
• Explore delegation skills
• Identify and decide on action to deal with time stealers

Programme Outline 

• Course introduction and objectives
• Costs of poor time management – the “new business reality”
• Time stealers and hoe to deal with them (time wasters – internal and external)
• Managing conflicting priorities
• Making and handling requests
• Ten principles for effective time management
• Profile & pitfalls – personal time management foibles and time stealers
• Procrastinating
• Focusing on objectives
• Key responsibility area planning
• Planning processes and planning considerations
• Personal planning tools
• Handling interruptions
• The delegation process
• Managing Meetings
• Problems and pitfalls of communication and how to avoid them
• Developing trust through open lines of communication
• Understanding and managing stress
• Continuous improvement – improving systems, processes and quality
• Turning ideas into action
• Course review